I have a MBP that I'm having some trouble with. I'm getting a lot of delays (usually with an accompanying spinning beach ball) when typing or navigating something. It seems to happen mostly when I'm on the internet but maybe sometimes when performing other tasks on my computer too. What things could be causing this?
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Getting a lot of delays and spinning beachballs
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Well my first thought would be a failing hard drive. Please provide some more specifics about your MBP, such as the model which can be found under System Profiler. How old it is and any more detail about the problem, etc...
First red flag I'm seeing is that you have less than 10% hard drive space free. Mac OS X and Windows need a certain amount of disk drive space free to allow for caching, and for operations like copying files to removable drives, burning files to DVD, etc. The beachball during internet use could be due to Flash content. 2GB RAM is decent, depending on what it is you're doing on the computer. If you still have issues after freeing up some additional hard drive space, you can try safe booting your computer, or running Activity Monitor to see what tasks your computer is still running that are occupying the processor cycles.